Punching and riveting machine.



No. 630,359. Imm-'fm1 Aug.' a; |899.

J. L. KlNsELL. l

PUNGHING AND RIVETING MACHINE.

(Application led Dec, 30, 1898.)

No Mael.)

UNITED STATES PlrrEiwr OFFICE.

JAMES L. KINSELL, OF BELLE PLAINE, IOWA.

PUNCHING AND RIVETING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of `Leid/ers Patent No. 630,359, dated August 8, 1899. Application nea December 30,1898. serai No. 700,688. uro model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES L. KINsELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belle Plaine, in the county of Benton and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements' in Punching and Riveting Machines; and I do hereby declare that the fol-y lowing is a full, clear, and exact description-of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The present invention has for its object to provide a simple, cheap, and durable as well as practically operating machine for punching and riveting leather, such as used in harness or other like material where solid or hollow rivets are required.

The invention consists in a machine constructed substantially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure l of the drawings is a side elevation of a machine constructed in accordance with myinvention; Fig. 2, a sectional elevation, on an enlarged scale, taken on line o: of Fig. l, showing the strips of leather or other material after being perforated in position to be riveted together; Fig. 3, a detail perspective view of the adjustable swage; Fig. haperspective view of the hollow rivet, and Fig. 5 a perspective view of the solid rivet.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents a suitable support or base, to which-is connected a standard B of any preferred con"- struction.

which are designed to punch the hole in the material and afterward engage the rivet and secure it to the two strips of leather or other material. The hand-lever C is suitably pivoted to the standard B and is provided with a depending swinging punch-carrier D, the rotatable punch being shown at E and cornprisinga plurality of punches of different sizes that may be brought in position to punch a hole of the desired diameter as required by the diameter of the rivet. A metal plate a upon the base or support A is located directly under the punch and in line therewith, upon which the material rests when being punched. The shaft F, which carries the swage Gr, extends up through an elongated opening in the hand-lever O and up through the standard B,

`To this standard are connectedthe several operating parts of, the machine,

and said shaft is pivoted to the hand-lever, as shown at b. The shaft F also passes down through a guide-arm H, which arm projects out horizontally from the standard B and is of sufficient length to come on line with and over the yielding and adjustable supporting' plate I. The swage is adjustable and reversible to bring it in position to be used with solid or hollow rivets.

In Fig. 2 of the drawings the swage G is in position to act upon a hollow rivet, said rivet, as shown at c, resting upon the block K and ready to engage itself with the perforation in the two strips d e, of leather or other material.

In order to render the swage G adjustable, it is pivotally connected to the lower end of the shaft F by means of the pin f, extending through an elongated slot gin the swage.

The conical-socketed end of the swage G, which in Fig. 2 of the drawings is shown at the upper end of the swage, is designed for use with the solid rivet h, as illustrated in Fig. 5.

The supporting-plate I is automatically raised to its normal position by means of the spring L'after said plate has been depressed by the hand-lever C.

After the hole has been punched in the material by means of the punch E the punch-carrier D is swung up out of the way, as shown in dotted lines of Fig. l'of the drawings, where it may be held by the hand or any convenient means. 4The two strips of material, as indicated at d e, are placed over and upon the supporting-plate I after the-.rivet'is placed upon the block K.

The position of the parts ready for riveting is shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, and as the lever O is depressed it will bring the swage G down upon the material and in turn press down the plate I until, the riveting is completed, the plate being forced up to its normal position by means of thespring L.

The supporting-plate I may be rendered yielding and adjustable in any suitable and well-known manner. In the present instance I have shown elongated slots t' upon the sides of the plate, through which pins 7c extend.

Any suitable-sized rivet, either solid or hollow, may be used, provision being made for this by the specially-constructed swage and the different-sized punches, the adjustable IOO swage and punch being carried by the, same' Letters Patent, is-

1- A Punching and; riveting. machine, @our sisting of Va base, a standard rising therefrom, a vertical shaft,a hand-lever pivotally mountv ed in the standard and pivotally connected with the shaft, a yielding supporting-plate, a swage on `the lower end of the shaft and having` a vertical slot to receive a transverse pin by which it is reversibly mounted and having different forms of dies on its opposite ends, and a guide for the shaftextending substantially horizontally from the standard, as set forth,

2. The combination with a base, of a block thereon,ra spring around the. block, a housing around the block, a plate having slotted depending portions engaging means on the housing, and a tubular guide depending from the plate and engaging the block within the spring, substantially as described. i j Y Intestimeny that'I-claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES L. KINSELL.

Witnesses:

F, A. LnARENs, L. W. HARTMAN. 

